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25-03-2006, 12:05 AM
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Churches Eat Souls
Join Date: Feb 2006
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what is the best way to power an active sub in boot
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25-03-2006, 12:18 AM
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Aspiring mr efxr
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Albury - Wodonga
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what one of those barrel ones? or a regular car sub such as these?
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25-03-2006, 12:28 AM
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Regular Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Uh, Don't active subwoofers have their own inbuilt AMP? Meaning all you need to do is run power to that?
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25-03-2006, 01:55 AM
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Churches Eat Souls
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Yeah mate, one of those barrel ones. I was wondering if there is already a good power source in the boot, or if I'd have to run one from somewhere else?
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25-03-2006, 03:06 PM
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Does Steve have a car?
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Melbourne
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You will need to run a new power cable from the battery, there is no sufficient power source available otherwise...
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25-03-2006, 04:02 PM
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Churches Eat Souls
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Thanks for your help mate. |
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25-03-2006, 05:26 PM
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Ef Fairmont
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Taree, NSW
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Then just earth to anywher ein the boot with a screw :P (Just thought I'd say that he doesn't need to run both positive and negetive from battery to boot, sorry for the stupid info, but some people on some forums have no clue, and run two power cables :/) |
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25-03-2006, 05:36 PM
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Smash the Boost
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Brisbane
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earthing back to the battery is a good way to get the best possible earth
Personally, i have earthed on a back seat anchor bolt. Sanded back of course. If the active sub is all your running, you should be able to get away with 8 guage which is easy to run. I ran 4 guage thru the factory main loom firewall bung, that sucked
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25-03-2006, 08:41 PM
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Ef Fairmont
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Taree, NSW
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I ran 4 gauge under the whole chassie through some sort of chassie rail tube, over the axel and drilled a hole into the boot :P All covered in some heavy duty plastic sheething of course 
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25-03-2006, 09:08 PM
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I just ran my 4ga through the firewall near where the pedals are, but up out of site, couldn't be bothered trying to pull things out of the way to find an existing hole so I made a new one and use a rubber gromet+silcon. |
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26-03-2006, 12:52 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Belmont, WA
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Nobody has mentioned fusing. Make sure you fuse the wire as close as possible to the battery to prevent a fire in case of a fault.
I also used one of the seat anchor bolts as an earth they work well. |
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powersource for boot subwoofer
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